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Hoops Away By: Yumi Basketball is a great way to have fun and exercise You should learn about all thecool tricks and skills you can do in basketball! And have the endless fun you deserve! Welldribble into this article and score some great tips about basketball.Fouls! Rules! Why are rules so important if you already have a good defence and offence?This is because if you don’t have rules you can’t play a fair game of basketball withanybody. In basketball, there are many rules that are easy to follow! Some rules depend onthe referee or coach, this is because sometimes the referee or coach don’t think we canhandle it just yet. For example stealing, a rule were you either can or can’t knock the ball orgrab the ball. This only happens while the other team is dribbling, passing, or holding theball. Some other rules always apply to the game. One rule is probably an obvious one. Youcan’t push, pull, or hit if you do it will be the other team's ball, that’s called a foul. Anotherone is all about shooting. When you are guarding the other player if somehow the shootermisses because their hand bumped yours and the referee saw it it’s a foul.Guarding and Attacking During basketball games, defence is a really important part of basketball. If you lackoff there is no way to beat the other team, this is the same for offence because if you do badyour team won't earn any points. During basketball there is always a bad side and a goodside to it, and for basketball it’s all about working hard and having fun. Part of working hardis to be your best self and to do best work. Offence is to help you score your points but youwill need to move around and try to help your teammates out. Defence is the same youneed to try and help your teammates out by changing who you’re guarding if the person withthe ball gets past you. When you are guarding or attacking and either your team or the otherteam is shooting sometimes it will ricochet off the backboard this is called a rebound.Rebounding is when your team or the other team shoots at the basket, but it does not go inand comes flying back at you or your teammates. If you're not careful the other team will getit first and either shoot it again or dribble it across the court, to make a basket where theyneed to shoot the ball to get a point for their own team. Rebounding is also important thiswill help you get the ball from the other team, or get it back so you can shoot it again and tryto make a shot for your own team.

Working Together During basketball you need to work with your team so you can get around thechallenges you have trying to make a basket. But when you are not nice to each othereverything will break apart you don’t have the strong friendship you had with yourteammates and it won’t work out well. You won’t want to pass the ball to her/him and youmight lose just because of the lack of teamwork.Hope is in the Air You have the basic information you need to know for basketball. The rules, defenceand offence, and finally team work. These are things you just can not forget when you areplaying basketball. If you lack of on some of these things you won’t be able to win anygames. And as I said before there is always a bad side and a good side to it, and forbasketball it’s all about working hard and having fun. When you are working hard you alsoneed to have all your focus and concentration.